At the heart of automated law and machine justice, then, there may be operating the great contradiction of the marriage of law and metrics based compliance: if (western) legal systems are now based on the fundamental ordering premise of (individual) human dignity, then taking the human out of law (or taking law (its construction or enforcement) out of the human, would fundamentally alter the baseline premise of the human in law.That, at least, appears to be running through the… [read post]